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Norths advice to avoid re-injury and to do interval, hill repeats, and tempo runs is excellent advice for almost anyone during the summer.
Your local running club might have a summer program that you can join. For example, my local running club starts its summer track program for speed work on June 20, and continues every Wednesday evening thereafter. My club does Sunday long runs (13 miles last Sunday, moving up one mpw) at 7am.
1. How should you ramp up? You have 17 weeks until your marathon. For weeks 17 and 16, you intend to rest. In the 15th week, you will try to re-establish your 40 mpw base. Then you have 14 weeks to train. Id use those weeks to participate in your clubs long runs. If your training goal is endurance, then when not participating with your club, make your personal runs in the 8 13 mile range. Move your mileage up 10% per week, so that by week 12 you will be at 50 mpw. At the top of week 11, prove to yourself that you can run at your pace for 22 26 miles. If you cant, then continue with your endurance training. If you can, then move to question 2.
2. When should you do hill and speed work? You should be doing weekly speed work with your club all summer. After you have proven to yourself that you have the endurance to finish your marathon, switch into your marathon-training schedule for however many weeks you have left. That schedule should give you additional hill/speed work to what you get at your weekly club training.
After two back-to-back marathon-training programs, you should be well prepared for your fall marathon. Good luck!
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